so now what
Just like me to start this journal and leave it, but a lot has been happening. . .let's see, I went to the comic-con (apparently SD has the largest in the world, with almost 100,000 attendees this year). A supposedly non-mainstream genre, although the whole convention was consumerism at it's finest, and like a good american, purchase I did. I received a summer cold along the way, courtesy of my current love, proving that not all things are good to share.
Last night was most notable, when we went to see "What the *@#$ Do We Know?," an indie film about quantum physics and reality. Very provocative. Topics: What we see in front of us is no different to our brains from what we remember (time doesn't actually exist - so everything is possibly "reality," and the fact that we "see" the past but not the future is unexplained). Also, did you know that the nucleus of an atom blinks in and out of existence (I sorta knew this about electrons, but not the so-called "meat" of the atom), that instead of matter Existing, it only has the potentiality to exist in certain places? Where does the nucleus (and thus mater as we classically know it) go? Scientists don't know! This points to the possibility of multiple dimensions.
The research on the power of thought to change one's surroundings (as well as the body) was astoundingly shown in an experiment on water. This Japanese researcher labeled different bottles of distilled water with different thoughts, from "thank you" to "You make me sick, I'm going to kill you," and the changes in the structure of the water (on a molecular level, from crystalline to chaos, respectively) were amazing to the point of being disturbing.
I was impressed by how spiritual this science seems (confessed by the scientists themselves), embedded in the connectivity of all things to their environment and each other. In the end, however, science comes to the same conclusion as many of us searching for meaning in life (or those who do not turn to that drug called religion): there's a lot of mystery.
Last night was most notable, when we went to see "What the *@#$ Do We Know?," an indie film about quantum physics and reality. Very provocative. Topics: What we see in front of us is no different to our brains from what we remember (time doesn't actually exist - so everything is possibly "reality," and the fact that we "see" the past but not the future is unexplained). Also, did you know that the nucleus of an atom blinks in and out of existence (I sorta knew this about electrons, but not the so-called "meat" of the atom), that instead of matter Existing, it only has the potentiality to exist in certain places? Where does the nucleus (and thus mater as we classically know it) go? Scientists don't know! This points to the possibility of multiple dimensions.
The research on the power of thought to change one's surroundings (as well as the body) was astoundingly shown in an experiment on water. This Japanese researcher labeled different bottles of distilled water with different thoughts, from "thank you" to "You make me sick, I'm going to kill you," and the changes in the structure of the water (on a molecular level, from crystalline to chaos, respectively) were amazing to the point of being disturbing.
I was impressed by how spiritual this science seems (confessed by the scientists themselves), embedded in the connectivity of all things to their environment and each other. In the end, however, science comes to the same conclusion as many of us searching for meaning in life (or those who do not turn to that drug called religion): there's a lot of mystery.